High school was EASY, adulting is HARD! After 25 years 4 friends reunite for their HS reunion. Each person has taken a different path than what they had planned all out in HS and need this reunion and each other more than ever to somehow just maybe get back to who they were and what they really want. Sometimes you have to go back to move forward. Great 90's references and the high school flash back scenes were fun to read and remember.

Light-hearted and fun!
the Most Likely Club is fun - that's it, simple! It's not a heavy or taxing read, it's light and enjoyable with some wonderful messages of love and friendship thrown in for good measure. I liked the plotline of the school reunion, and of the four best friends who all come together for this moment.
There's not a huge amount I can say about this book, it is sweet and feel-good and will make you smile, I do think some of the scenes may be a little cheesy and a little too; 'try-to-hard' in my opinion, but nothing that I would have stopped reading for. It's all good fun!
I think I may have overused that word!
Overall, this book is enjoyable and well worth a read, it's all about friendship and how those relationships change with every stage of a person's life,

Short synopsis: 25 years after graduating High School, four friends attend their reunion and decide to try to accomplish their High School Superlatives.

My thoughts: This was a fun lighthearted read with friendship, mixed with parenting, mixed with romantic relationships, and finally career aspirations.

The relationship between these four friends is goals! I also have friendships with my girlfriends from high school, and to this day they are my rock! I think everyone deserves friends like this!

I think the author really hit the mark with the diversity among the women, the different background and how their lives ended up, and especially connecting the flashbacks with current trends.

I loved the throwback to the 90s brought up in this. Although I was born in the mid 80s a lot of these things come fresh in my mind as they were discussed. Spice girls, choker necklaces, “Barbie Girl”, Clueless and many more.

Read if you love:
* High School Reunions
* Girlfriends
* Reaching for the stars
* Alternating perspectives
* 90s pop culture
* Woman supporting women

This was definitely an easy on the brain, summertime read! Loved all of the girly drama! Anything with high school flashbacks is a plus!

The Most Likely Club follows four women from high school to life beyond. Meeting up at their 25 year reunion, Melissa, Priya, Tara, and Suki realize that they are not where they dreamed they would be. An ode to friendship, high school, adulting and an altogether enjoyable read.

**I received an electronic ARC from NetGalley in exchange for a fair and unbiased review of this book.

I thought I would like this one, but I found the plot and characters to be incredibly shallow. It felt like it was depending on obscure tiktok references to carry it. I wasn't invested and thought about giving up on this one every other chapter.

Thank you Berkeley Publishing Group and #NetGalley for the arc!

This was one of my most anticipated Fall reads and I am so grateful to for my eARC in exchange for this review!

The Most Likely Club follows 4 women who were all voted most like to ... succeed in some way in high school. The book showcases the day they find out their most likely superlatives in high school, and then fasts forward to the future right before their high school reunion. The chapters are told in alternating perspectives from the four women and filled with fun throwbacks to the 90s and reminded me a little of my high school days too! Each woman had her own struggles, though some overlapped, and I found that ultimately this novel was one about finding out who you are and staying true to yourself.

I really liked this book and flew through it in just a few days! While I didn't love all of the women, I really resonated with Melissa and Priya as characters and the way they were as mothers. I also loved the own voices Jewish rep! Overall, I thought this was a fun read and I cannot wait to read whatever Friedland writes next!!

This was a cute story of female friendship through the years, and how we may need our friends even more the older we get. I appreciated the characters and their challenges were real and complex, and how the friendships and support of each other rang true to life.

Aside from rudely making me realize that I'm staring down twenty years since graduating high school, this was a pretty enjoyable read. Four "most likely" winners who have remained friends in the years since graduation are spurred on by realizing some forgotten dreams are still achievable (in maybe different and more attainable ways than they thought at 18). I don't feel like we get books about women in this age bracket as often as we should, and I thought that it did an excellent job showing how different life can look at different stages. It's absolutely a character driven story, but parts of each of their lives resonated and I think each perspective was interesting.

This was a fun read and I loved the women supporting women aspect that we got from this storyline with the friendship between the main characters. I thought the author perfectly captured that feeling of going to a class reunion and looking back at the goals you had senior year wondering if you should have done something different or if you were living the life you always thought you would. It was fun to see where some of their classmates ended up and the crazy things that happened during the reunion. I liked the most likely girls pact and how everything came together in the end! I think the multiple POVs were great in this novel, I liked hearing from all the women and seeing glimpses into their lives. It was great seeing them work towards their goals and supporting one another in their journeys. This was a good one!

I really enjoyed the friendship group in this book. It was nice to see them band together and go after the dreams they had when they were young. The first half of the book was very engaging and I was really curious to see where their stories would take them. However the second half drifted off. I feel like the big issues each one was facing never had a massive climatic moment, they just sort of got a one sentence resolution.

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for the early copy of this in exchange for a review.

Elyssa Friedland has done it again! I have consistently enjoyed her stories and the unique storylines she comes up with. In this one we have a group of friends from high school that graduated in the 1990s and are preparing for a high school reunion. Told from the 4 character perspectives, we hear the stories of each one.

I wish there would have been more coverage of the actual renion, it felt like that was cut short. I also think one of the characters didn't have much coverage so it was almost like an afterthought that she was included.

This book was not my favorite. I had a hard time liking any of the characters, which made it difficult to root for anyone at all. I felt as though it was scattered throughout, and the ends were tied up in such a rush that I questioned if I had read it all correctly. I love Elyssa Friedland's work, especially Floating Feldmans, but this was a miss for me.

Friedland's previous book, Last Summer at the Golden Hotel, was one of my favorite beach reads because of the fully-developed characters and the strong sense of place. This book continues that tradition and is even more fun! Anyone who ever wondered what would happen if they followed their dreams will love this book!

I thought it was a cute book. I wasn't blown away but I also wasn't bored. I don't usually enjoy high school reunion books/movies but this was well done.

I actually loved high school, and now several years (*cough*) later, I could relate to ensemble cast. I enjoyed Elyssa Friedland's last book and love how she did something different with this one. Kudos to the author.

I adored Last Summer at the Golden Hotel, and while I didn’t love this one quite as much, due to a slower start, the second half really brought it home!

The story line yanked me, hard, back into memories of high school…the cliques, the cafeteria tables, the yearbook, the subtle and overt bullying, the friendships, the stress and anxiety and joy and sorrow.

The four lead characters are strong women, each in singular fashion, occasionally annoying, sometimes both hilarious, wise, and inspiring. I quite often related, and wondered what my own decisions would have been.

Admittedly, it took awhile for these four women to grow on me; the first third of the book I might’ve rolled my eyes a few times. Yet…I did see why by the end of the book. Friedland took time to develop these characters, and I so appreciated her hard work in the end. I ended up loving this one:)

Love a good literary romance, this was fun, and highlighted a lot of the ups and downs that female friendships go through. The characters were endearing and so relatable. Definitely recommend. Thanks to the publisher for this title. Opinions are my own.

The Most Likely Club by Elyssa Friedland is an enjoyable book that highlights the ups and downs of long term female friendships. Thank you to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for my advanced review copy. All opinions and thoughts are my own.

What was your favorite part of high school?⁣ To be honest - I hated high school. I couldn’t wait to get out of there! But I did meet my husband and best friend there, so it wasn’t a total loss! ⁣
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And fun fact - I was Class of 97 just like the 4 ladies in this book. It brought me back to all the fun parts of being a 90's teen, but also the hardest parts of high school and how tough it can be to fit in - while feeling like you need to plan your entire life in just those 4 years.⁣
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“You don’t want to peak in high school. Then it’s all downhill after that.”⁣
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I definitely think there’s someone or something that everyone who has attended high school can relate to in this story. Sometimes success isn’t what makes you happiest, your dreams may change - and that’s ok - because life doesn’t start at 17, it begins whenever you want it too.